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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Sounds cool! I'm excited to see how it works out. Some notes from the video I saw on YouTube. Needs better audio quality. Bigger fonts for the computer typing would be nicer, the existing size was just legible. It would be nice to see t
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Start doing them as soon as you get them. Never spend too long on any one assignment or question. If one question is taking too long, ask for help as soon as you can. Practice getting and giving help, these are crucial skills. If necess
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Every time I did these I got 98% or higher. I only got worse grades when I didn't have time to do all these things because of how many classes I was taking simultaneously.
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Top hacks: 1) Buy books, learn material before class starts. Then review each section before each class, with notes and questions. You know you are doing it right when everything is boringly obvious by the time you officially get to it. 2
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
One issue with PRNGs used for lotteries like this is the seed size. For example, the law might say that every combination of 12 eligible people is equally likely to be selected for a jury. But the number of possible sets of 12 people can
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
The IEEE problems are actually specific to x87 and the fact that x87 has extended precision in registers and single/double precision in memory. So your result can depend on whether the compiler spilled intermediate calculations to memory o
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by nwhitehead 16y ago
Thanks for pointing out the HPC instances that Amazon has. A few commenters were saying that it's not really a supercomputer without a fast interconnect. Yes, they have that! You just pay more for those instances. In my experience Amazon